barelyEnglishOxford American Thesaurusbarely adverb we barely got home in time: hardly, scarcely, just, only just, narrowly, by the skin of one's teeth, by a hair's breadth, by a very small margin, by the narrowest of margins, by a nose; almost not; informal by a whisker. ▷antonyms easily.
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